Why are the answers for dinosaur questions so terrible? I see so many responses which are very ill-informed and the answers chosen as the best are usually the worst! There’s no way to go back and re-open these Q&A to add better information leaving closed Q&A sessions with terrible misinformation. What’s the appropriate way to handle these situations? Should they be flagged for abuse? I don’t think it’s good to encourage people to think extinct marine reptiles had gills or that there were no feathered dinosaurs when we consider there is no evidence for the former (examining modern aquatic vertebrates = no gills in any of these; no evidence of adaptations towards gill-breathing in fossil aquatic reptiles) and plenty of evidence for the latter (countless feathered specimens described in peer-reviewed publications clearly show the presence of feathers in many theropod dinosaurs). These are just two cases which I saw which especially jumped to mind, but there are plenty of other awful answers which I’ve seen. What’s the best way to handle this?

Thanks,
-N.

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